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Not only are the 16 songs banal, but they’re untheatrical: Virtually all of them are here’s-how-I’m-feeling-right-this-second power ballads that stop the action of the show dead instead of pushing it forward to the final curtain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 17, 2018

Part of the problem is that “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Mendelssohn style, is innately unwieldy, and Disney is an inherently untheatrical venue that requires the extravagant imagination of a Peter Sellars or Yuval Sharon.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017

Even superb performances by Daniil Simkin and Sarah Lane in the Bluebird pas de deux felt curiously untheatrical.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2010

Whatever the answer, in the last of the three debates, this proudly untheatrical man has to give the performance of his political life.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2010

What struck me most, I think, was the unfussy, untheatrical way in which it was all done.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.